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42 new features AWS announced in the week of Feb 12 – Feb 18, 2026
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Wednesday, Feb 18
AWS Certificate Manager updates default certificate validity to comply with new guidelines
Amazon Aurora DSQL now integrates with Kiro powers and AI agent skills
Mistral AI Devstral 2 now available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Connect Cases now supports AWS Service Quotas
AWS Clean Rooms announces support for remote Apache Iceberg REST catalogs
Amazon OpenSearch Service expands support for Graviton4 (c8g,m8g & r8g ) instances
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports storage optimized i7i instances
Tuesday, Feb 17
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) region
Amazon Bedrock reinforcement fine-tuning adds support for open-weight models with OpenAI-compatible APIs
Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.12 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.44) is now generally available
Amazon Connect now includes agent time-off requests in draft schedules
Amazon EventBridge Scheduler adds resource count metrics for quota monitoring
Monday, Feb 16
AWS HealthImaging launches additional metrics for monitoring data stores
Announcing new high performance computing Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances
Announcing Amazon DocumentDB long-term support (LTS) on 5.0
AWS Backup announces PrivateLink support for SAP HANA on AWS
Amazon EC2 M7i instances are now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Friday, Feb 13
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in additional regions
Amazon Connect launches in-app notifications to surface critical operational alerts to business users
Amazon Connect now provides real time AI-powered overviews and recommended next actions for Tasks
Amazon RDS now supports backup configuration when restoring snapshots
Amazon Aurora DSQL adds support for identity columns and sequence objects
Thursday, Feb 12
Announcing Amazon EC2 C8i, M8i, and R8i instances on second-generation AWS Outposts racks
Amazon Bedrock adds support for the latest open-weight models in Asia Pacific (Sydney)
Amazon S3 Access Grants are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
Amazon Bedrock expands support for AWS PrivateLink
AWS expands Resource Control Policies support to Amazon DynamoDB
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Amazon EC2 C8a instances now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) and Europe (Ireland) region
Amazon Connect now supports multi-line text fields on case templates
Amazon MSK now supports dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity for existing clusters
Claude Sonnet 4.6 now available in Amazon Bedrock
AWS Glue 5.1 is now available in 18 additional regions
Kiro is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Aurora now supports Server-Side Encryption by default
AI Troubleshooting in the AWS Support Center Console now supports 7 additional languages
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 18.2, 17.8, 16.12, 15.16 and 14.21
Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in Europe (Stockholm)
Announcing new Amazon EC2 general purpose M8azn instances
Amazon S3 Tables add partition and sort order definition in the CreateTable API
AWS Backup adds cross-Region database snapshot copy to logically air-gapped vaults
Amazon RDS now supports latest Cumulative Update (CU23) for Microsoft SQL Server
Amazon Connect launches granular access controls for analytics dashboards